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‘Post/colonial’ & ‘multi-kulti’ Central Europe (necessary PS)

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 23 May 2011 by delclem

An old friend of mine has pointed out  that in many countries (e.g. Canada), multiculturalism is misunderstood as multi-nationalism. According to him, each *nationality* within a multi-ethnic society constructs their little cultural backyard, an allotment garden as it were, with  hedges and garden gnomes. *Multikulti* then is a mere pretext for cultural segregation and *living out* your prevailing cultural narratives (one of the most polemic examples: Islamist attempts to introduce Sharia into western judiciary) without caring too much about the others and their cultures. Continue reading